White house pressured the platform to Censor Americans and he says he regrets caving to those demands. Good morning im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning, bret. Good to see you. Bret im bret baier and this is americas newsroom. Zuckerberg making that admission in a letter to chairman jim jordan saying the white house pushed facebook to take down posts that included Covid Misinformation even ones defined as humor or satire. Dana when meta denied one of those requests the administration grew frustrated. Back in 2020 when jen psaki was the Press Secretary and said facebook needed to be stronger on policing content. Has facebook been as proactive as the white house would like in terms of its response . I think as i noted yesterday, phil, there is more there are more steps that everyone can take. Facebook responded yesterday after the Press Briefing saying that they removed 18 million pieces of Covid Misinformation. So does the white house find that sufficient . Clearly not becaus
didn t know what was going on. and that the implosion of this company, the billions of dollars in lost investor money, was not his fault but it was beyond his control. that doesn t really fly. ultimately my understanding based on all the evidence here is that he was loaning himself money to speculate with in another side of the company. so when everything implodes and he loses money it is hard not to believe there wasn t fraud committed and i keep hearing the story line here he is being walked out in handcuffs and brought back to the united states. dana: there isn t that much pressure on the democrats in congress who got a lot of money from him. republicans got some, too but democrats got the lions share saying no, you ll be here on december 13th and we ll get more information. i want to play this other clip.
is still in the bahamas but says he will testify before the house financial services committee about his crypto exchange s massive collapse. he may not be able to make it to the december 13th deadline. he tweeted this to committee chair maxine waters, once i ve finished learning and reviewing what happened i would feel it was my duty to appear before the committee and explain. i m not sure that will happen by the 13th. when it does i will testify. let s bring in clay travis, outkick founder. i read that and this is not your decision, sir. well, i keep waiting for someone to show up and arrest him because this is like bernie madoff with better pr. all he has done is try to send as many different messages. he did the new york times, given different interviews and quotes to media. as a result, it is trying to send the message i ve got nothing to hide here and he is trying to claim, dana, and it keeps growing, that really, he
the canvassers to determine whether to have a hand count or a machine count. well here s why i m asking that because if you really do have to count some 3 million votes by hand, and you can t get it done by this december 13th deadline which is a federal plan date, would that mean, because the electoral college meets what six days after december 13th, on the 19th, so would that mean that wisconsin s electoral votes would be thrown out? no. first of all, we have 72 counties, and i expect that many of our counties will be able to complete the recount, even a hand count, within a week s time. our larger counties, that may be a challenge. but in any event that the december 13th deadline is not met, that does not mean the electoral votes are forfeited. it means that congress does not necessarily need to honor the electoral slate, the republican party electoral slate. and then congress would decide could decide
for a vigorous investigation. they are trying to beat a december 13th deadline to hammer out a spending plan and head off yet another government shutdown. congressman paul ryan and senator patty murray are putting together a trillion dollar package for next year and are said to be only a few billion dollars away in savings. a cracked windshield forced a new orleans bound flight to return to orlando. a local tv station says southwest pilots noticed the crack on the outer part of the windshield thursday and turned back. the plane landed safely. the passengers were placed on another airplane. in just about an hour, the government will release it s november jobs report. economists expect 185,000 workers were added to the payrolls. the october report registered 204,000 hires. this uptick in hiring may not necessarily be a good thing for investors. trying to figure out if the fed will end its stimulus measures. we ll bring you those numbers live at 8:30 eastern this